Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-08
BOOM! BOOM!! BOOM!!!

LEXINGTON, NO., Jan. o, 1851.
EDITOR IETELLIaENcER:-Old Lex
ington on a boom in 1667-let her
boom! Nail the flag to the mast head !!
Clear the decks for action! Throw
wide the port holes! Cannoniers, to
your gunsl Signal the fleet to follow
the flag ship! Fire up! More steam
is needed to breast the current. Round
the bend is "Fort Old Fogy." Now,
signal the feet to follow in our wake,
pouring broadsides into Old Fort
Fogy rs each passes by, knocking all its
portfolios into one.
Stop firing! See You not the
white flag flying? They have sur.
rendered. Well, twas they or US; tis
the torture OF war
Boom! Good times are coming
Corner lots are in demand! Boom |
Boom! The capital of old Lafayette,
Residence aud business property are In
demandl And why not? with three
of the Oldest female colleges in the
state filed to their capacity with young
ladies from seven different states
Boom! yes, boom! and we'll we may.
with Male Military Academy second
to none, equal to any, with young men
ia attendance from all over the state.
Boom and again we booml Three
white public schools, one of which is
q high school. In addition we have Q
school for the colored children.
Let loose the dogs of warl Fire the
great guns in batteryl Seven commo-
dious brick churcees for the whites,
all denominations represented; and
three churches for the colored people.
Still another broadside! We have four
of the wealthiest banks, backed up by
rich men, who own them. Hear you
not the bugle soundingl Onr streets
are macadamized; waterworks; street
cars; and our streets are illuminated by
ninety odd gas lampsl
BoomI Boom! Fifty cars of coal
per day, 400 bushels to the car, being
shipped by Gould. McGrew and others
from near Lexington! Awake from
your Rip VanWinkle sleepI Gould is
building along our river front on to
Marshall, Boonville and st. Louis !!
Boom! Booml Gould has bought
large tracts of coal lands on the river
front east of Lexington, and by next
fall will ship one hundred cars of coal
4 day. 6finseH a3oiiep not to japeak "a
|nshoni1sss hGtsdD. s&ooRL BpQQl
=. sxsks .,Ths 1s %ofa II hrs Is. aaona9 slst
pE6n yon ht hot vhe cocE "a '6r6wihg The
Short Line will be built; as will other
through roads by Vanderbilt. the
Pennsylvania railroad, or Garrett OF
the Baltimore & Ohio. All must reach
Kansas City. 1t Is only question OF
year or 80 when the various roads
that are now and will be built between
here and Kansas City, will
run accommodation trains ss is done
from st. LOUIS to Kirkwood, to ao-
commodate business men living hereand
along the lines who are doing business
in Kansas City or Lexington. The
morning star of Lexington's boom
shines bright! Within the next 1s
months the G. B. & q. will cross here
on its way south, through the Indian
Territory, Texas and Oh to the Pacific,
Gould has been encroaching the terri
tory of the c., b. Il q. in Nebraska a
anu hoNC lao tuCli lull
head him Off. They have built, as has
he, 400 miles of road, each, in Kansas
and Nebraska. 1t is a long lane that
has no turning. Now let Could look
outl for with all his ingenuity and
wealth the c., b. Il Q Short Line aud
Lexington & St. Joseph are all com.
ingl
Where is that bridge, the charter for
which committee was appointed to
look after this winter? Come to the
front, gentlemen, no time to waste
the roads will want the bridge before
you have obtained the charter. Such,
fellow citizens, is your near future,
should no unforeseen financial trouble
evertake our country. All we need
is to boom our town. l am told YOU
can't buy piece of coal land now for
any reasonable price with the little
boom that has come to us of itself
Boom! Booml! Boom!I!
LIGHT AHEAD.